UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau joined a growing group of student leaders and politicians when he urged for the lifting of coverage caps from the UC Student Health Insurance Plan in a letter signed Wednesday. Read More…
The petition was initiated by UAW Local 2865 — a union representing UC student workers — on Jan. 16 calling for the UC to lift the $400,000 lifetime coverage cap and the annual $10,000 prescription drug cap from the UC SHIP in order to align the plan with the Affordable Care Act. Read More…
Never too far from politics, students from UC Berkeley made an appearance at the Republican National Convention last week. Six Berkeley College Republicans traveled to Tampa, Fla., as volunteers for California’s delegation to the convention, which took place Aug. 27 to 30 and centered on the theme of “A Better Read More…
Kenya Wheeler is a graduate student at Berkeley who was diagnosed with brain cancer. Read his full feature here.
On the top of his buzzed head, Kenya Wheeler has a thin, almost unnoticeable line where his hair does not grow — a surgical scar that reminds him that he, as a brain cancer survivor, will always have to live with the fear of relapse. For the last seven months, Read More…